Cheese bandage



W. A. AUSTIN CHEESE BANDAGE Filed Nov. 12

Alwzazzzzzw Patented Sept. .9., 1924.

' uNlTlazDl STATES;

WINEIELD A. AUSTIN, jor GEEEN BAY, wisconsin.

CHEESE BANDAGE.

Application meanovember 12,192.3., serial No. 574,151. l

T all whom tmag/ concern.'

Be it known that I, WINFIELD' A. AUsrrN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of t-he city of Green Bay, in the county of Brown andV State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Cheese Bandage; `and I dohereby declare that the following is av full, clear, and exact description of the same, refe-rence being had to the accompanying drawings, and

to the numerals of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to a cheese bandage which is adapted to be placed in a polygonal cheese hoop during the operation of pressing the curd.

These bandages, which consist of some pliable material as cheese cloth, are usually folded over the top and bottom edges of the polygonal cheese hoop. This folding process stretches the bandage across the corners of the hoop whereby the cheese `formed in such a bandage will have rounded corners so that the corner pieces will not be of proper weight after being cut.

It is an object of this invention to overcome the above noted objections in the provision of a bandage having upper and lower contracted portions which are adapted to be folded over the upper and lower edges of the hoop, the bandage between said contracted portions being put under very little, if any, tension so as tobe allowed to conform to the corners of the hoop.

This invention comprises thenovel structure and combinations of elements hereinafter described and more particularly pointed out and defined in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate a preferred embodiment of this invention, and in which similar reference numerals refer to similar features in the different views:

Figure 1 is a vertical section through a cheese mould.

Figure 2 is a horizontal lsection through the cheese hoop.

Figure 3 is an enlarged fragmentary sectional view of the cheese hoop showing the bandage folded thereover.

Figure 4 is a fragmentary plan view of a contracted portion of the cheese bandage.

As shown on the drawings:

In referring to the drawings, there is illustrated a stationary mould member 1 which is of polygonal formand openl at its upper end and a movable mould member comprising the usual polygonal hoop 2.,' which-'telescopes within tliestationary mould, member andthe cover 3 which tits-down over the upper end of the hoop 2. This formjo'fj..V mould -or press is merely.,V illustrative and.l does not involve any part of this invention, except in so far as it may cio-operate therewith. v

The subjectmatter of this invention is pri- 'Y marily directed to the bandage that lines l the interior of the hoop 2 during the pressing or moulding Yof the curd into cheese:- This bandage comprises a loop of some suitable pliable material 4 which may be the-l well-known cheese cloth. It is made by tak-` Iing apiece of cloth of proper dimensions and sewing the ends together to form a loop of `such a size as to amply iit the interior contour of the polygonal hoop 2 and of suliicient height to overlap both ends of the hoop. According vto this invention, the up-. per and lower, or in other words the open,

margins of this loop are controlled by a plurality of tucks 5 which are preferably formed so as to come at thel corners of the hoop, as shown in Fig, 3, with the seam of the loop at a corner. These tucks 5 preferably extend a distance that is substantially equal to the exterior folded portions 6 of the loop when positioned within the cheese hoop.

In applying such a loop of cloth within the cheese hoop 2, it ispositioned therein and the tucked margins 6 are 'folded overl the upper and lower edges of the hoop. 'The hoop may then be inserted in `the lower mould, the curd poured into the hoop and the cover 3 clamped. down upon the hoop and over the tucked margin of the cheese bandage. There will accordingly beno tension imparted to the loop of cloth within the cheese hoop so that Lthe same may readily conformit the interior contour of the polygonal hoop and allow the corners of the hoop to be lled.

It is apparent that this invention overcomesa kserious defect or` objection in a very simple way, making it merely necessary to-` produce a loop of clothof proper size and tucking in' the upper and lower margins thereof. y K

According to this invention, a full size cheese is manufactured thatl is thoroughly cor'- protected by the bandage or loop7 and wherein the objectionable feature of round corners on a square cheese is entirely eliminated.

I am aware that numerous details of eonstruction may be varied through a wide range wtihout departing from the principles of this invention, and I therefore do not purpose limiting the patent granted 0therwise than necessitatedv by the prior art.

I claim as my invention:

l. In a cheese mould.7 a hoop, a cheese bandagel therein comprising a loop of cloth having its upper and lower margins contraeted and folded over the upper and lower edges o f said hoop 'for the purpose set forth.

2. A cheese bandage comprising a loop of pliable material having its margins oontraoted.

3. A cheese bandage comprising a loop lof pliable material having a plurality of tucks adjacent its margins for contracting the open ends thereof for the purpose set forth.

4. The combination with a polygonal cheese hoop, of a Cheese bandage comprising a loop of pliable material fitting within said hoop, and having margins tucked at the corners of said hoop folded thereover;

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of .two subscribing witnesses.

IVINFIELD A. AUSTIN.

Witnesses CARLTON HLLL, OsoAR HARTMANN. 

